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But of all the inhabitants of the house, Christophe was the soonest intimate with the little couple on the second floor. More than once as he passed their door he had stopped to listen to the sound of the piano which Madame Arnaud used to play quite well when she was alone. Then he gave them tickets for his concert, for which they thanked him effusively.
She was glad, without the slightest answering emotion, that Arnaud, well liked her. At the same time all her wisdom declared that she couldn't marry him; and, with the unsparing frankness of youth and her individual detachment, she told him exactly why. "I need a great deal of money," she proceeded, "because I am frightfully extravagant.
And the breath of God gave her a new hold on life, and found her an invisible support. Then the husband and wife both set patiently to work once more to weave the magnificent and vain web of their dreams, a web fashioned of their purest suffering and their blood. Madame Arnaud was alone in her room.... It was near evening. The door-bell rang.
Amy was known to have always desired to see Switzerland; it occurred to Guy that it would be a capital opportunity of taking Arnaud to see the relations he had been talking for the last twenty years of visiting, and so they acquiesced; for as Guy said, when they talked it over together, it did not seem to him to come under the denomination of pleasure-hunting, since they had not devised it for themselves; they had no house to go to; they should do Arnaud a service, and perhaps they should meet Philip.
Madame Arnaud listened to Christophe without daring to look at him. Suddenly she got up and said: "Good-by." Then he saw that she had come to confide in him, and said: "Oh! forgive me. I'm a selfish oaf, and can only talk about myself. Please stay. Won't you?" She said: "No: I cannot.... Thank you...." And she left him. It was some time before they met again.
One of Arnaud's men having captured a courier carrying despatches for the King of France, Palavicini, commander-in-chief of the troops of Piedmont, was ordered to bring Arnaud with him into the presence of Amadeus.
For the present, no more was said about Philip; and they proceeded to Interlachen, where they spent a day or two, while Arnaud was with his relations; and they visited the two beautiful lakes of Thun and Brientz.
Of course, that's a lot do you hate me for telling you? but I wouldn't think of any one with less than fifty " Arnaud Hallet interrupted quietly, "I have that." Linda gazed incredulously at his neglected shoes, the wrinkles of his inconsiderable coat and unstudied scarf.
She never quite lost the satisfaction of her mirror's faultless reflection; and stopped, now, for a moment's calm interrogation of the being hardly more silvery cool than the reality before her. Arnaud was at the table, and the gaze with which he met her was troubled. The morning paper, she saw, was, against custom, at her place, and she picked it up with an instinctive sense of calamity.
I shall content myself with enumerating the well-known names of the Count de Caylus, of the Abbe de la Bleterie, Barthelemy, Reynal, Arnaud, of Messieurs de la Condamine, du Clos, de Ste Palaye, de Bougainville, Caperonnier, de Guignes, Suard, &c. without attempting to discriminate the shades of their characters, or the degrees of our connection.
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